{"id":2929,"date":"2013-04-03T20:48:26","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T20:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/?p=2929"},"modified":"2013-05-10T20:56:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T20:56:00","slug":"bouncing-around-with-lily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/bouncing-around-with-lily\/","title":{"rendered":"Bouncing Around With Lily"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Miguelitos<\/a><\/p>\n

Bouncing Around With Lily<\/strong>
\nFeaturing Lily
\nRed Necked Wallaby
\nApril 3, 2013
\nEdmonton Valley Zoo
\nEdmonton, Alberta, Canada<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, Lily was kicked out her pouch by her mother.\u00a0 After a couple attempts by zookeepers at the Edmonton Valley Zoo<\/a> to put her back in the pouch, a decision was made that it was in her best interest to be handraised.\u00a0 At just four months old she was hairless, weighed just under 300 grams and needed\u00a0bottle feeding every three hours.\u00a0 Three months later she is fully furred and only needs to be fed five times a day.\u00a0 She happily sprints around her adoptive keepers’ homes and has started testing her jumping abilities on stairs and beds.\u00a0 Though she is still on a milk formula, she loves to eat leafy greens like kale, spinach or romaine and enjoys ice cubes on hot days.<\/p>\n

Red Necked Wallabys are one of the largest species of wallaby, and often are mistaken for a kangaroo.\u00a0 After a young wallaby is born, it will spend approximately 280 days in the pouch, and will nurse until it is 12-17 months old. \u00a0Wallabies don\u2019t just have strong legs, they also have the unique ability to store energy in their tendons. As a result, most of the energy required for each hop is provided \u201cfree\u201d by the spring action of the tendons rather than muscular effort. Increased speed actually requires very little effort, unlike in other mammals. \u00a0These marsupials cool themselves by licking their hands and forearms during nervous excitement or hot weather. They prefer cooler weather and will become more active at dawn or dusk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bouncing Around With Lily Featuring Lily Red Necked Wallaby April 3, 2013 Edmonton Valley Zoo Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Unfortunately, Lily was kicked out her pouch by her mother.\u00a0 After a couple attempts by zookeepers at the Edmonton Valley Zoo to put her back in the pouch, a decision was made that it was in her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45,6,62,236],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2929"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2941,"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929\/revisions\/2941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}